Example sentences of "time in which [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | for this idea to work , one has to consider histories that take place in imaginary time , rather than in the real time in which we perceive ourselves as living . |
| 2 | When one goes back to the real time in which we live , however , there will still appear to be singularities . |
| 3 | They are the thermodynamic arrow , the direction of time in which disorder increases ; the psychological arrow , the direction of time in which we remember the past and not the future ; and the cosmological arrow , the direction of time in which the universe expands rather than contracts . |
| 4 | But essentially , the time in which they were built is a world apart from the time we live in . |
| 5 | The clearer the goals and the shorter the time in which they are to be achieved , then the greater the cohesion of the group . |
| 6 | Here , the Metropolitan police are planning to feed all genetic records of known sex offenders into their computers next year — this will speed up considerably the time in which they can track down attackers . |
| 7 | A reduction in the number of matches and the space of time in which they are played is something Mr. Robinson is pressing for . |
| 8 | One of the difficulties , I would imagine , is associated not just with the level of cutbacks , but also the scale of time in which they 're have to be implemented . |
| 9 | And I can tell you this : I 'm amazed at your new modern outlook ; I 've always known you to be as strait-laced as a Victorian corset and sticking to the narrow principles of that time in which you were brought up . |
| 10 | As the protagonist in Kafka 's Conversation with a Suppliant confessed : ‘ There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive . ’ |
| 11 | I sat in the armchair and was entertained by the funniest and most unorthodox brand of humour I had experienced in the short time in which I had graced the Earth with my presence . |
| 12 | When the congregation of the Lutheran Church gathered to hear the Word of God expounded , they expected to hear it expounded fully , and the Pastor of Tappersdorf was ready to oblige , not merely comparing the German text for the day — a reference to the doings of an obscure Old Testament prophet — with the original Hebrew , and giving a learned half-hour to an explanation of the circumstances in which the prophet lived , suffered , and prophesied , a time in which it seemed a small group of people struggled for the truth and searched for God under the shadow of huge decadent empires to the East — and the West , but he , the Pastor , was perfectly willing to apply the prophet 's message to the present day — and to present-day socialist Germany , at that . |
| 13 | And they all confirmed what Alvar Fañez had said ; and the Cid thanked them for their love , and said that there might come a time in which he should guerdon them . |
| 14 | He would soon use these newly acquired talents in the play Jimmy Shine , but the only time in which he has attempted to sing on film were in his two biggest turkeys — Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me ? and Ishtar . |
| 15 | His room overlooked our house , and he could watch the comings and goings — we were having some turf laid at the time in which he was taking a great interest — and I used to drive round there every evening at half past five and bring him home for a meal , after which we would chat or watch television . |
| 16 | Christ , as God , was omniscient , his outlook not limited by the time in which he lived . |
| 17 | I think if you ha , if you look at Burns in the context of the time in which he lived , he was not an exceptional drinker or an exceptional womanizer , we 're a lot like him |
| 18 | X. Ray 's unshowy steadiness was right for the low time in which he newly found himself — he could put the fire out . |
| 19 | Integral parts of a coherent musical expression , consistent with the time in which he flourished , they provide vivid illustration of the organic relationship between a musical repertory , the instrument for which it was written , and the performance practice . |
| 20 | The queer feeling came over her , that choking feeling in her throat which she experienced in the night , when she was lying awake trying to recall and piece together dim , fleeting memories of another time in which she had lived , when things had been both happy and sad , when angry broken sentences would not meet and so explain the odd pictures that formed in her mind . |
| 21 | There was a fractional gap in time in which she went blind and deaf and limp , a second that was almost a miniature swoon in essence , but so infinitesimal that she was n't even aware of the fleeting relief , the madness in her again instantly , the craving , unbearably heightened by this first knowledge of his nakedness in contact with hers . |